NOTES for Isa 28:1-29

Israel’s self-intoxication and self-deception are angrily denounced; their consequences will be tragic unless there is a return to God (and there will not be one!). It is terrible to replace the word of God with a human “precept upon precept, rule upon rule, a little here and a little there.” God sets against this the “tested stone, a precious cornerstone,” the Messiah who is to come. And now we too will face the same temptation: to replace a living faith in Christ with a human “precept upon precept, rule upon rule, a little here and a little there.”